War and Remembrance Disc 4: Part V : November 2, 1942 - December 1, 1942 ; Part VI : December 20, 1942 - April 3, 1943

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Call Number: DVD TV War V.4
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a television series in 1988.
Based on the novel by Herman Wouk.
Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Sir John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Woods, Sharon Stone.
One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War II, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust. Features spectacular reenactments of the event at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal and El Alamein.
DVD, 2.0 Dolby digital, Region 1 encoding, full screen.
Contents: War and rememberance.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

War and Remembrance submitted by mlindner on January 22, 2024, 1:20pm Rewatching the Winds of War and War and Remembrance recently reminded me of the characters, plot, and historical context for which this series has stood the test of time. Robert Mitchum as Pug Henry and Polly Bergen as Rhoda Henry convey their torment as their marriage unravels and Rhoda succumbs to alcohol and remorse.

The jarring shift for the characters of Natalie Jastrow and her famous uncle Aaron Jastrow in War and Remembrance necessitated casting Jane Seymour as Natalie and John Gielgud as Aaron, who ably convinced the viewer of the profound changes each character goes through. Gone are the flippant, emotionally insincere Natalie Jastrow and the irrational bravado of Aaron Jastrow who play a doomed game of trying to outwit the Nazis in the Winds of War.
The editing is excellent, and the use of miniatures in most battle scenes is acceptable, even in this day of digital mastery. The acting and emotional punch of War and Remembrance far outweigh any outdated technology. The final scene where Byron brings his son to Natalie, as she recovers from her near death at Auschwitz and mental breakdown, poignantly blends the old Yiddish lullaby "Rozhinkes mit Mandlen" sung Jane Seymour with the unanswered questions of how Natalie will choose to spend the rest of her life, as a Jew in Eretz Israel or as an American Jew with her husband Byron in the U.S.
In the subplot of Natalie Jastrow's long-ago lover, Leslie Slote, the the State Department official played by David Dukes evolves from the ever frustrated and teased lover into a man with a conscience as he realizes the truth of hard information he receives in Moscow about the extermination camps in Poland and knows he is helpless to save Natalie and her son.